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Wife is away for the weekend so just me and kiddo. Hope to watch the latest Dungeon Meshi with her. Cook dinner (small goals, man, small goals).

Install flat free tire on wheelbarrow. Which sounds not worth mentioning. The thing is, I'm usually depressed af by this time of year. Then I miss out prepping for gardening season.

Well not this year, baybee. I've been intently focused on preventing that and am doing pretty good. The wheelbarrow is representative of that.

Anyway, more tomatoes, spinach, maybe take another crack at potatoes, basil, zucchini, carrots, cantaloupes again (I can't believe they actually worked last time), not sure what else, yet. Beans? Oh and various sunflowers. Garlic has been in the ground for two years now. The alpine strawberries should now be pretty established but I may have to get a few more. Walking onions continue to spread whether I like it or not...

Got a 1 year old with RSV (literally turns 1 on the 3rd). She is going to need a lot of care and attention. Then my 5 year old too who is recovering from being sick, but maybe some crafts and coloring

I'm meeting up with a friend and their SO for a little hiking and brunch at a local breakfast joint. Picking up the vision pro today for work so that's exciting!

I think it's easy to be negative if a person doesn't consider the human reading their anonymous posts, people feel empowered to take out their problems from life in general on random faceless internet strangers.

Trying to hold it all together for another day. Going through a thing. It'll be fine but need to just make it through the next couple of days I reckon.

I remain cautiously pessimistic at this point.

I love messing around with technology that's not old enough to be considered vintage, not new enough to be considered usable, just this odd in the middle obsolete stuff.

So you bet your ass I'm spending my weekend on the three old iPads I got from my work and finding ways to utilize them.

We're getting a 3D ultrasound of our first child tomorrow. To say I'm beyond excited is an understatement.

There's an anti-Nazi rally in my town, which I'll go attend because fuck the AfD.

I also have tickets for Beast in Black and Gloryhammer on saturday, which is gonna be absolutely epic.

Taking my oldest skiing for the first time in her life

Legit, no meme, no joke, I'm making beef stroganoff.

We don't do it often, maybe twice a year, but it's a household favorite.

I‘m visiting my girlfriend , who lives unfortunately in another city. It’s going to be great, just chillin and cuddling and maybe a nice dinner and breakfast at the cozy Café around the corner.

The only thing which isn’t perfect: Here in Germany are recently very big demonstrations against the far right on weekends. There’ will be one nearby, but I obviously can’t make it. Oh well, maybe there will be one nearby my girlfriends place.

On my side I'm going to meet a friend I haven't seen in a long time Saturday morning, and I might get some Lego later today.

Shout out to !lego@lemmy.world for people interested

Love this thread and the responses I'm seeing so far. We have big plans to cuddle the baby all weekend, go to a greenhouse and farmers market, hit up a park, and spend some quality time reading as a family.

As an aside, one of the things I really appreciate about the size of Lemmy is how the users are a lot more recognizable (and not just the novelty accounts like on Reddit or other bigger platforms). It's been interesting to see how a user can infuriate me one one thread but then have me arguing in their defense in a separate thread. It's a good reminder that people are multi-faceted and everyone is going to have both hot and garbage takes. But one thing I appreciate is being able to have a conversation on Lemmy even when we disagree on topics.

My teen will be here instead of his Mom’s house for the weekend, so literally anything he wants to do. He drives now, which is scary as heck, so tonight he’s going to meet buddies and he’ll be here on his schedule.

I had some great ideas for meals he would love, including his favorite chocolate chip pancakes, but suddenly he’s eating low carb, so those ideas are out. I don’t know, might end up with just chicken breasts and veggies.

Assuming the weather is ok, we’ve been doing a lot of walking around town and on the new rail trail, so hopefully more of that. It’s a great opportunity to just talk, while having enough activity so it’s not forced talking

Taxes. Looks like OP is in Germany, so …. Here in the US, we need to fill out tax forms and send them in: after January, but by April 15. Lots of paperwork to assemble, but I’m hoping for a huge rebate for buying an electric car

Working on a Doom mod, tryin'a keep a good number of vibe checks, and working through THC withdrawal and a tolerance break. I ain't a very exciting dude.

Going into town on Sat: a few errands and meeting some friends for a pub lunch. Maybe going to see Poor Things at a local cinema with my SO in the evening.

On Sunday yet another attempt to get some paintings up on the wall. It has been months and we still haven't for one reason or another. I'm going settle in for some reading otherwise.

The weather is warming up a bit this weekend so I wanted to go for a walk between other errands :)

Spanish homework! My local city council offers free adult learning courses for people earning < £30k. I signed up for Spanish almost on a whim. I was nervous as hell to begin with, but three lessons in I really love it.

My son just turned 7 we're gonna have a surprise party tomorrow. I have to buy a couch today I've never had this many people at my house before

Riding the train for almost twelve hours because airplane tickets are too expensive and the high speed rail hasn't reached where I wanna go

Gonna play Warhammer The Old World with old friends.

No set plans, but I have a hilariously broken app I want to rewrite. In the begining I was a bit ambitious with such a small task, but then lost myself in the process of editing it and borked it a couple of times. Now everything but the basic functionality is commented out not to be executed. I feel like I need to finally untangle that mess. Maybe it makes sense to restart that with drawing it's logic on a paper so I'm sure I understand how it all should proceed.

Other than that? Maybe some reading and gaming. Both have massive backlogs.

It's finally a weekend with no set plans, so I'm going to work on some art, change my oil, and maybe we'll have a fire since the weather is going to be nice. So a weekend with no plans turns into catching up on me time and getting to things I've put off for too long 🙃

Sitting in LA traffic but I’m not driving. We’re coming back from the Grammy Museum and Chinatown. I’m visiting my fams, headed to a big family dinner tonight and my heart is full.

Hey FUCK you! /s

But for real it's my birthday so I'll be doing birthday stuff🎈

As of reading this post, my weekend plans have already begun!

I am currently enjoying a bowl (or three) of fresh homemade french onion soup and a glass of sauvignon blanc.

Tomorrow I'm going to put the finishing touches on a shelf for my cousin and install it in her bedroom.

After that I'm probably going to putter around in the shop for a bit, clean up, maybe sharpen something. I'll probably poke at FreeCAD a bit with the intention of designing one of the larger woodworking projects I have going this year; I have a cabinet, a hutch and a dry bar to build once the days lengthen a bit.

I'm late in a run through Satisfactory. I've sent the last project up the space elevator, so now I'm just horsing around, dumping things in the AWESOME sink. My stretch goal is all the trophies; the 1000 coupons for the Golden Nut is a goal I've not yet achieved in this game. I'm really hoping this is my last run of this game in early access, I don't want to wear myself out on it before 1.0.

Speaking of stretch goals, I just got the notification that a Kickstarter I'm backing has achieved it's goal. To be fair it had before I bid; The Longest Johns are releasing a new album and along with it a bunch of other goodies. I've got their whole back catalog coming on CD. I'm looking forward to it because it'll make it easier to listen to their music in the shop, where I don't have good internet signal.

I think it's off to a good start.

Update: Cat in lap. Is purring.

I'm gonna plow my wife and we'll watch tech repair videos afterwards.

A little bit of self promotion, since you asked. My bandmate and I started a tiny record label named Paraluna as a project and decided our first release was going to be a charity compilation of 80s covers named Retronomicon for Charles Levi to help with his recovery. It came out yesterday and is doing okay in sales. 100% of proceeds go to Charles Levi's medical bills. If anyone is interested, it's easy to find with a quick Google search. So this weekend is promote, promote, promote.

Hope you have a great weekend!

It's going to rain. I'll be nesting. Might bake some bread. Just started playing Greedfall, so I'll probably put some hours into that.

Beyond that, I'll hit up a couple 12-step meetings, as I do. Maybe hit the Saturday farmers market?

Dunno. The main goal is to trick myself into not thinking about work for two days.

Watching Groundhog day and fixing the kitchen cabinet.

Building some cabinets! Finally got all the logistics worked out.

And some work. Bleh

I should clean up a bit. Probably going to drink a liter or two of whiskey with Diet Coke or seltzer. I have parts for a whole new pc to put together but haven’t gotten around to it for a couple of months… the system I have is adequate for what I do and I haven’t felt like rocking the boat. Probably I’ll go for a walk or two with my dad if the weather is decent. Also thinking about making enchiladas, maybe pasta sauce and lasagna. Definitely need to roast some brussel sprouts and asparagus.

Snowboard Bay-Be! Ice coast sucks, but snowboard rules! Hopefully we get some snow soon to get into the back country.

I might go out with some work friends, hook up with a guy I have been wanting to meet for a while, and go to the gym. And talk in silly voices with my cats.

Lots of new trolls but they are quickly banned.

People are insulting sometimes but it's more about them than us. That's how they think they should behave I guess. Rebelling as a keyboard warrior and all. :)

I had a great weak. Started leasing a new car on Monday and have been enjoying it a lot. Work is going good. Soon warmer weather too. Things are looking nice.